Day 279 - A Face in the Crowd.

The day of the Great North run dawns and it was a gorgeous day! Claire had decided that she wasn't well enough to do the run so we went down to support Ben. Ben was raising money for Diabetes UK which explains his rather attractive head wear. The atmosphere at the start of the race was amazing. There were over 52000 people running the 13 miles and then with all the people supporting them it was really busy. After watching the start of the race (and guessing when Ben crossed the start line which was probably about 30 mins after it actually started!) Claire and I made our way into town to catch the metro down to South Shields. It was mayhem in town and took us about as long to get to the end of the race as it took Ben to run it!! He did the run in 2:29 hrs and had a great sense of achievement for completing the race but I don't think he'll be doing it again! I was hoping that seeing Ben complete the race might inspire me to enter it another time.....but I don't think so! I'll stick to running in the park!